Friedbeef’s Tech

How to Copy Files Faster and Easier

   If you want to supercharge the simple act of copying and pasting - Teracopy is just the piece of freeware for you. Here are 5 key features that stand out the most to me: Copy files faster - Asynchronous copy speeds up file transfer between two physical hard drives Pause and resume file transfers - Pause copy process [...]

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Wordpress Comments - Top 10 Useful Plugins

The following is a guest post by Syahid Ali of TechMalaya.com Wordpress is undoubtedly one of the best blogging platforms that one can use because of its stability and extensibility of the system.  Comments meanwhile, are : The heartbeat of a blog that keeps posts alive Useful to grab a reader’s attention An important indicator of a popular post Thus with [...]

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How to Quickly Backup Files to Your Email

If you’ve ever wanted a simpler solution to backing up your files online - this article is for you. I currently use Gmail as a quick and dirty online backup solution where what I typically what I do is : Login to Gmail, attach the file, and then I email it to myself. While quick, this [...]

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How to Zoom in While Using ANY Application

ZoomIt is a cool tool released for free by Microsoft that allows you to quickly zoom in, and also annotate it your screen. Many people tout it as something to be used for zooming into presentations, but I personally don’t believe in having any presentations that small to begin with! Having said that – Zoomit makes an [...]

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How to Watch Real Media without Installing Real Media Player

What’s the problem with Real Media Player? Started in 1995, Real Media used to be my media player of choice back in the old days, when I was still using my 56k modem.  The compression was awesome, and it was one of the only ways I could get decent streams of multimedia via a dial-up connection. Years later, [...]

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